The remover's men who are often quite obstinate in their attempts to set up beds in houses with the head Pointing northwards, whatever the denice: of, the owcholder, are possibly not wilfully perverse, but following an old tradition of their calling.
This tradition has recently come! under the attention of certain pathologists who report that it is not so meaningless as might be thought, Dr, Jules Regnault, a French pathologist, in particular, has been explaining that if people sleep with the body lying north and south, with the head towards the: North Pole, the circulation of the blood and the reflexes of the nervous.
[system will be so affected that calm sleep is more probable than if the east and west position is chosen.
The reason given is that the magnetic currents of the earth follow a course between north and. south,
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